Pro1x after 1 week of use...

[raymo 177]

After 1 week of use as mainly phone, I can't use the pro1x for my daily use.
Wifi, GPS, Mobile data (and a termux archlinux container), all this things are working good (and the keyboard with some custom mapping using KeyMapper is very cool), but phone call quality is a mess.
On my side it's ok, but 50% of my phone call are uncomprehensible for the other side.
I haven't such calls problems with my titan pocket, unfortunately, and I feel confortable with a battery who holds three days in a solid-like-rocks device.
The pro1x will be now the perfect GPS for my old car (the most expensive GPS of the world), or maybe an old school PDA (that I don't need to use).

Next step will be dismounting my old pro1 and see if I can do something for the broken keyboard.  (could be a ribbon problem, and maybe a hope if pro1/pro1x keyboards ribbon cable are compatible and not soldered on mainboard but this will be another story).

[Lollerobot 5]

No worries, the gnss satellite navigation systems cost tens of thousands so you can go much more expensive for a car GPS :P.

I've heard the phone call quality issues before but I've not personally had the issue.

[raymo 177]

On 11/14/2024 at 8:54 AM, Lollerobot said:

I've heard the phone call quality issues before but I've not personally had the issue

it's not every time, but unfortunately it's not usable as I've sometimes customers who call me for business, making things more complicated...

Pro1 was not perfect but I never had this problem.

 

[own3mall 2]

Are you running LineageOS?  Because I have the same problem with my calls!  They come in and out.

[raymo 177]

Yes, LineageOS sorry I should precise this point.

In my case phone calls are not so bad on my side, it's just appears on the other side, very bad sound quality. I've tested with two phone carriers as I'm sometimes in an other country. It appears on both carriers, so I guess it's more a phone problem here as it doesn't happen with my titan pocket.

[Rob. S. 1,661]

@raymo Have you tried using a headset instead of the built-in mic? (I seem to remember this was one of the several suggestions back when the first Pro1X devices showed the problem, but I cannot remember whether they helped someone. When I was using the Pro1X, I also head some call quality problems.)

Edited Wednesday at 10:50 PM by Rob. S.

[raymo 177]

No, I didn't try a headset, it's far from my definition of practical use. However if this works it should point an other pro1X's hardware problem, but I have yet no time to test this.

However, thanks for your suggestion,

[Rob. S. 1,661]

@raymo I fully agree to the 'practical use' comment. During my "active" time, trying to use it as a daily driver, with the specific Pro1X I still own, it was far away from anything like what most people would see as 'practical use', but for some time most of the basic phone stuff – in addition to the keyboard usage I bought it for – somehow worked – but only as long as I carried a small mobile router that gave me WiFi wherever I went, and with Voice over WiFi enabled to at least be able to do calls, however bad the voice connectivity was. 

It seems each individual Pro1X was a surprise package, absolutely unlikely to fully work, but with no prediction possible to say in advance what might work and what might not, much of the possible faultiness due to the fragile antenna connectors that try to link the soldered antennas to the metal back cover.  

It will still be interesting to see. if and when I get the one outstanding device, how it'll behave...